Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro shouted the name of one candi date for the wall: Major Hubert Matos, the revolutionary hero who quit the army a fortnight ago charging Communist infiltration (TIME, Nov. 2) and for his troubles wound up in prison along with 38 of his officers. "Pilots who crash here," added Castro, referring to the leaflet-dropping runs by U.S.-based Cuban exiles, "will know that the firing squad awaits them inexorably...
Last week booming Northland received a distinction presently unmatched by any other four-year liberal-arts college. Courtesy of General Dynamics, it will soon have a $250,000 atomic reactor, along with famed Physicists Edward Teller and Frederic de Hoffmann on loan from time to time to lecture in a new $1,000,000 science building. With an additional $10 million endowment in the offing (all earmarked for teachers' salaries), Northland faces an even rosier future. Says go-getting President Turbeville, who has turned down industry offers at more than double his $15,000 salary: "In ten years...
...script that, despite faults, gave his immense talent full range. Somerset Maugham's biting novel of a man in the grip of artistic demons was formidable for transformation into less than 90 minutes of television drama. Before Playwright S. Lee (People Kill People Sometimes) Pogostin was called in, along with Director Bob Mulligan, two other scriptwriters had fumbled the job. After 48 hours packed with pencil work, pep pills and black coffee, Pogostin and Mulligan had built a play that pleased both Olivier and Producer David Susskind. In the process, they lost some of the novel's dark...
Disaster Plan. In Tokyo, a foreigner in his underwear leaped from a cab, rushed into a Red Cross office, handed the rest of his clothing to a startled clerk along with a note in English stating "For typhoon relief," dashed...
Curb Service. In Osaka, Japan, to help along a safety campaign, some 40 housewives formed a stretcher corps to haul fallen tipplers out of traffic danger...